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BCW Health & Balance Seminar Part II Success!
(4/1/02)
BCW held its 2nd Health Seminar for 2002, "A Matter of Priorities" at the Mercy Healthplex on Feb. 28, 2002. Attended by some 55 women, the seminar featured a day of exercise including yoga, pilates and water aerobics, stress and breast cancer awareness health presentations, a "Life Lessons Sisters' Session and neck massages. The breast cancer presentation by a local Oncologist signaled a very alarming fact. Though more white women contract breast cancer, black women get a more aggressive form of the disease and more black women die from it. Participants were also informed that there are no known research projects that are specifically targeted on how breast cancer affects black women differently than all others exploring alternative therapies for us. As a result of this disturbing alert, BCW is sending out letters of concern to various local and national cancer associations and agencies and we urge other black women and black women's organizations to join us in raising their concern regarding the lack of research in this area. The day was filled with doorprizes, which included an exercise video for black women, produced by and starring Becky Singleton, who is featured in the current issue of Heart and Soul magazine. The end of the day featured a final meltdown through meditation. This event, sponsored by the Anheuser Busch Companies, was designed to encourage African American women to realize the benefits of exercise and health awareness in striving for a healthier life. This experiential health seminar was a wonderful sister-to-sister experience and was so highly evaluated that BCW is now planning a follow up event. Anyone interested in serving on the planning committee for our next health seminar to be held here in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Fall of 2002, please send an email to us or call 513/531-1932 and provide us with contact info for you.
Below is one of the nice notes sent to BCW following the Health Seminar:
This is a brief note to thank you and Black Career Women for an outstanding health seminar. Our health should be our #1 priority! I appreciate your persistence in encouraging me to attend. I want to add my voice to that of other women at the seminar with regard to the urgency for clinical trials studying the impact of breast cancer on African American women. The statistics are alarming, especially since the cancers that impact us are more virulent forms that have devastating consequences. This BCW seminar was another high caliber event.
Laura Carr , Public Relations Strategist
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